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DBMS > Altibase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.intersystems.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseInterSystemsMicrosoftSiteWhereTeradata
Initial release19991997201220102005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnoR packages
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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